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studio kaäla
Design, culture & living ecological archives
Led by the artist Kaäla , the studio works at the intersection of design, illustration, and narrative storytelling, drawing from forests, mountains, plants, and overlooked landscapes as living archives of culture and memory.
Archive de Kaäla
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Gal Gal
Stories from home
Gal.Gal is a space for slow, attentive writing and illustrated storytelling.
Its objective is simple: to listen closely to mountains, memory, and the lives shaped by them.
Here, stories are gathered rather than produced, told through words and images alike. Gal.Gal seeks to preserve what is often overlooked, the ordinary, the enduring, and the deeply human.
This is work that resists haste.
A place to return to what feels honest, rooted, and alive.
Women’s Ritual Archives
The Jyoti Patta Archive is a living repository dedicated to documenting, preserving, and studying the ritual mural traditions of Uttarakhand. Rooted in Kumaoni women’s visual and
spiritual knowledge, images, oral histories, and contextual records of Jyoti Patta paintings as they exist in homes, ceremonies, and everyday life. The project seeks to safeguard an art form that is ephemeral, community-held, and deeply tied to ecological and cultural memory.
It seeks to ensure that it remains accessible for research, learning, and future generations.
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